can i split a pdf file?

Jonathan McKeown jonathan+freebsd-questions at hst.org.za
Mon Jan 26 23:47:28 PST 2009


On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500
> > From: Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org>
> > Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file?
> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
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> > Charlie Kester wrote:
> > > On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote:
> > >>     Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ]
> > >>     chunks?  Or are there open source tools out there that i can
> > >> build?
[various suggestions including pdfmerge and psnup from ports]

Alternatively, if you have a reasonably complete TeX installation (I'm still 
using teTeX), check whether you have texexec installed - which can extract 
pages from PDFs.

Jonathan


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